About once a month I get together with some friends to ‘stitch & bitch’. We usually work on crochet or knitted projects, but the other night we we decided to each bring a craft and share it.
Being a fabricaholic I decided to bring some fabric strips, jewlery clamps and clasps and have everyone make fabric bracelets. 
My friend Jennifer brought 4″ tiles and scrapbooking paper so we could all make coasters.
I was a little late to the party, so my tiles didn’t quite dry before I wrapped them in tissue paper….
Looks like I’ll be picking off some tissue paper.
Jennifer’s sister Harriette brought buttons, wire and ribbons and we made button wreath tree ornaments.
Super cute wreath
Finally, there’s Jayne. Let me just state up front that any girl that has a blow torch and knows how to use it is A-O-K in my book!
Blowtorch Jayne
Jayne had us make fabric roses. Unfortunately Jayne didn’t have a sample of her craft made up so we could just look at it and replicate. (cause that’s how we roll). No, Jayne started on her project after we all had at least one beer – (safety announcement: do not mix beer, rotary cutters and blow torches). However, we cut Jayne some slack since she did host the S&B this month – and because we love her.
We first put in a running stitch on one edge of the fabric strip. 
Roll it up, blowtorch or melt the frayed edges (being careful not to melt the thread used to create the running stitch – ah hem) , glue a small piece of felt to the back
(It totally helps is the glue gun is pink), and sew (not glue) a pin to the back and voila – a fabric rose.
Beautiful when done, unfortunately none of us finished our flowers, but these are what they WILL look like – right girls???
Thanks for hosting (and taking one for the team), Jayne!! ;-)
